@dangeRuss said in Which free databases aren't crap?:
@Jaloopa said in Which free databases aren't crap?:
@dangeRuss said in Which free databases aren't crap?:
Amazon has postgres and mysql compatible Aurora which is supposed to be better architected, and they now have serverless versions of each.
Postgres has postgis which is geo support.
If you can architect things properly, you can basically host this site for free.
Host the static stuff on s3, use lambda for the backend and dynamodb for the database.
Amazon DynamoDB is a high performance non-relational database service that is easy to set up, operate, and scale. It is designed to address the core problems of database management, performance, scalability, and reliability. It also provides predictable high performance and low latency at scale.
FREE TIER: Each month, Amazon DynamoDB users pay no charges on the first 25GB of storage, the first 2.5 million DynamoDB Streams read request units, as well as 25 write capacity unit and 25 read capacity units of provisioned capacity. Free tier also provides 25 replicated write capacity units to deploy DynamoDB Global Tables in up to 2 AWS regions.
They have a free tier for pretty much everything.
They're hosted on Azure, and I don't want to mess with the infrastructure to that level. Maybe if this becomes a regular thing.
Looks like the consensus is that postgres is decent. I'll download it and have a play then. Thanks everyone
I mean hosted is a strong word given that it's a static site. Is there any backend at all? Why would you choose to host on Azure if you don't have any dynamic pages? Or is it on top of some sort of framework, WordPress, .NET whatever?
I haven't seen what the infrastructure is like yet, but have been told it's on Azure. The site is done in assemble.js with handlebars and gulp from what I've seen in the code. There's no news area or anything like that so no need for a CMS